Stripes & Seasons

Fall Capsule Wardrobe Outfit #1

So, we're really doing this, I'm posting photos of myself posing in front of a tripod on my blog. Ha! Life is funny. 

I think this was the perfect outfit to start this capsule wardrobe adventure with. I recently got this dress from Madewell…it's on sale! I love the stripes with the red lip and gold accessories, very Taylor Swift I was told. 

Enough about clothes...

In the past few days I have been feeling stuck. I was realizing that I am "stuck" locationally for the next few years of my life while I finish school. For some reason in my mind this translated to me feeling stuck emotionally and spiritually. I felt myself searching for what taking risks and living an abundant life looks like in a season so confined locationally. I had a wonderful conversation with a very wise friend this past weekend about this tension I was feeling. He gave me some wonderful truth about seasons. He reminded me that there really is a season for everything (do you ever feel like you already know something, but then someone says it in a new way and it opens your eyes all over again?) He said that I will go through seasons in life where God calls me to do big and crazy things, but now I am blessed with the gift of a stable, contestant environment. And potentially, this environment might be just the thing preparing me for the big risks God will call me to take in the next years. 

This gave me such peace. I'm so looking forward to what abundant life will look like in my future life. But for now I am so grateful for what Jesus is doing in my life and the people around me in the routine of my current life. 

Fall Capsule Wardrobe

So, life is crazy. We all know that. To do lists get way to long and our calendar is scheduled for the next three months. With so much going on, I have found that I crave simplicity, specifically with things I own. I want the items I use and love the most, easily accessible. All that being said, I started following this blog a while back and I instantly knew this was it. This level of simplicity was what I was craving! It's crazy to think that changing something so small, like the clothes I wear could potentially bring so much simplicity to my over all life.

Doing this capsule wardrobe is exciting to me, I'm excited for what these 3 months will look like. Here's what it is, it is: 3 months of no shopping and wearing the roughly 30 items I picked out from my wardrobe. I will give myself unlimited accessories and shoes.  I was so excited when I was picking out these items. So many of these pieces are some of my favorite in my wardrobe. I'm looking forward to this little journey. Read more on this blog, if you want to see where my inspiration came from and what the "rules" are. I am going to try to post quite a few of my outfits I put together from these 30 pieces on here, I think it will keep me accountable!

So here are the clothes I picked. I photographed them in sections, because let's be honest no one has time to scroll through 35 pictures. Here's to the simplicity! I'm really looking forward to this.